new projects - University of St.Gallen (HSG)Alexandria::new projectsActGo-GatePhilipp Menschner (applied research project) --- ActGo-Gate inspires and enables people to get involved in social activities, voluntary work and micro-tasks by providing them with easy-to-use ICT-supported solutions. The aim is to increase transparency of demands and offerings in social marketplaces, allowing for flexible and self-determined participation. The efforts aim at strengthening social ties and mutual support as well as improving ...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/239614
2015-03-02The Legitimation of Innovations: Evidence from the Swiss Mechanical Watch IndustryFlorian Ueberbacher (fundamental research project) --- With its primary focus on investigating factors leading to the conceptualization and development of innovations, factors leading to their beneficial evaluation by stakeholder audiences have remained under-explored in extant innovation man-agement research (e.g. Carroll et al., 2010; Garud et al., 2013).
To advance extant research, the proposed research program draws from neo-institutional ...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/239531
2015-02-25Insights into Understanding Employees’ Compliance with IT Security Policies in the Shadow IT ContextAndrea Back, Mario Silic (fundamental research project) --- Employees’ compliance with IT security policies represents a major concern for organizations where this insider threat is currently identified as top source of organizational data breaches. This is quite concerning knowing that over half of all IS security breaches are caused by the lack of employees’ IT security compliance It is estimated that an insider attack costs a company approximately ...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/239365
2015-02-19New Insights on Insurance-Linked Securities, Risk-Adjusted Performance Measurement and Behavioral InsuranceAlexander Braun (fundamental research project) --- All three papers that are part of this research proposal strongly rely on insights from my own extant work that was supported by a one-year postdoctoral grant from the fundamental research fund of the University of St. Gallen (GFF-HSG) between mid-2012 and mid-2013. The first paper focuses on the market for cat bonds and thus directly follows one of the topics from the previous proposal. More ...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/239283
2015-02-16Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights: The Margin of Appreciation Doctrine RevisitedPatricia Egli (fundamental research project) --- One of the most influential international treaties on human rights on regional level is the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed on 4 November 1950 (ECHR). However, the European Court of Human Rights (Court) sometimes delivers judgments that not only influence the cases at hand but influence generally the national legal orders and practices of ...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/238992
2015-02-04Data Collection in Prospective Multicenter Clinical TrialsDimitri A. Raptis, Rolf Graf, Tobias Mettler (applied research project) --- Paper-based data collection for prospective clinical trials is associated with a poor quality of data collection. This typically involves missing or wrong data entry or a low recruitment rate, mainly due to the cumbersome and uncontrolled data collection.
Electronic data collection is associated with improved quality of data entry in the cases of Electronic Patient Records (EPR) and patient ...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/238485
2015-01-14Decision support system for selection of academic medical chairs worldwideDimitri A. Raptis, Milo Alan Puhan, Tobias Mettler (applied research project) --- Several academic hospitals around the world report shortcomings in the selection of academic chairs in the field of medicine. Therefore the University of Zurich has initiated a project with the aim to establish an evidence-based standardized tool, that will be internationally applicable, yet must be flexible enough to be adapted to the local requirements and legal restrictions for selecting ...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/238488
2015-01-14Geschäftsmodellinnovationen für EigenverbrauchsanlagenSamdruk Dharshing, Rolf Wüstenhagen (applied research project) --- In den letzten Jahren fanden sowohl im Europäischen als auch im Schweizerischen Energiemarkt bedeutende Richtungswechsel statt. Aufgrund der Unterschiede zwischen konventionellen Kraftwerken und dezentralen Kleinprojekten, sowie der zunehmenden Unabhängigkeit des Kunden werden Eigenverbrauchsanlagen oftmals als Herausforderung für EVU wahrgenommen. Um einer schleichenden Konkurrenzierung durch...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/238476
2015-01-13Risk Premium Project (RPP) Continual Update - 2014/2015Martin Eling, Ruo Jia (applied research project) --- In this project we summarize the actuarial and finance literature on the theory and empirics of risk assessment for property-casualty insurance. Special emphasis is laid on recent developments in literature from reinsurance, risk management and catastrophe sources. This update considers literature in the year ...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/238258
2015-01-08Insurance Linked Securities: Trends, Challenges and New Market OpportunitiesMartin Eling (industry project) --- Due to their relatively high yields and low return correlations with traditional asset classes, insurance-linked securities (ILS) have repeatedly been described as an appealing investment opportunity (e.g. Cummins and Weiss, 2009; Braun et al., 2013). Yet, the investor base for this kind of asset is largely dominated by few specialized investment managers. The aim of this paper is to analyze ...https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/projects/238274
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